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Convention of Hate: Presidency Shouldn't Be Won on Slander

We have seen nastiness at both parties' rallies before, but in my time, which goes back to FDR, I can remember no oratory sanctioned by a major party that was more obviously a hate speech than Zell Miller's.

Founded in 1955 by a small group that included Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly. Over the years it has been a home to a wide range of writers and artists, from E.E...

"Anybody but Cheney" in 2008 can be taken symbolically as well as literally. Obama and McCain should not pick people who given the chance would take the country in exactly the opposite direction the people want it to go and that the candidate promised it would go.

One of these days, the American public is going to wake up and see that just because a candidate like John McCain can talk a good game about the military, and show off his pictures from the Vietnam days, it doesn't mean life will get any better for troops serving now.

While Democrats are still competing, Republicans can kick back and plan a party. "It's like planning a dinner party," said Matt Burns, communications director for the GOP convention. "It's good to know the guest of honor."

Rick Perry is between a rock (with a racial epithet painted on it) and a hard place. He's the governor of a border state with an enormous Latino population, and his efforts to not demonize all of them as potential illegal immigrants have already left him castigated by the Tea Party.